I don't really know how I want to start this.
This is kind of like an informal podcast.
We. Just started just like this.
Just. Started just like this hello to
give some context, I honestly didn't even want to record this
today because I'm like I woke up in a funk I'm like man, I'm
pissed off I got a lot of stuff going on today, this week in
general and I wanted like the stars to align and be in the
right mood and mindset to record this one.
We got like an ad going on for I don't.
Think anyone can see that? Yeah, but the stars?
Never. Align the stars never align and
like this podcast is like a subset of the Savage perspective
podcast that you and I are doing here on this one.
We're going to call it the work and the whole idea being to like
give people more behind the scenes as to like the business
operations, the entrepreneurial journey, just everything we got
going on and the stars never aligned with what we get going
on. So recording this when I'm not
ready for it is only sensible. It's real, you know, it's.
Unedited. Raw reality.
So welcome to the work a subset
a bonus episode of the Savage perspective.
We should probably do like a little intro.
I mean, I'm assuming most people listen to this, probably know
who I am, they probably know who you are.
But maybe we should both do like a little intro just to cover our
bases. So you start, man.
You're the guest. My name is Greg Mahler.
I go by Keto Greg more commonly on social media and I have been
in the ketogenic bodybuilding space for almost 11 years.
Kind of the same time frame you have been in.
Done several competition preps. Robert was my coach, mentor,
bodybuilding partner, friend, employer, the whole works.
And here we are just digging in all kinds of fun stuff.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, quick little bio on me,
Robert Sykes, ketogenic natural bodybuilder.
For 10-11 years now I've been keto same as you.
Started Keto Savage back in 2016, launched Keto Brick in
2018. We've got the apparel we need to
do an episode on the work here where we talk about all the
different umbrellas of the business and just what all we've
got our hands in. But you came here on site to
work with us, what, 8 months ago?
Something like that. Would have been mid-May.
Just did some remote work. Yeah, you did some for.
A couple of years actually prior to, but.
You've been with us here almost a year then?
Coming up in. May yeah, that's crazy.
And you kind of let my catch all.
Like I throw everything at you. You're like, I don't know what
the official title to that would be though 'cause it's not a
secretary like a lot of people think that, but that's not it at
all. Like I'm throwing stuff at you
and I'm just like trusting you to roll with it and you do.
Yeah, I'm a right hand man. Administrative assistant, but
that's the secretary, right? Yeah, I don't think you're an
administrative assistant. You're like the the man with
smaller triceps. Yeah.
No, I probably wouldn't say that.
I would say probably. Wouldn't say that.
Probably the guy with bigger calves.
I'd give that to you. You've got bigger calves and a
better mustache. Oh yeah.
But I want this podcast to be more laid back and informal and
just raw. I guess that's the best way to
put it. Like the work, you know, every
single day we're coming here, we're chipping away at a task
and I'm going to start the daily vlogging back up whenever I have
time. So who knows when that might be.
But there's so many things that I'm like, one thing to talk
about. And since I'm not daily
vlogging, it's not getting documented.
So I feel like if we do a relatively consistent weekly
recap, talking about things we got cooking, things that we're
working on, things that we're looking forward to, I can kind
of just document that journey. Cause a lot of people that I'm
talking to, like when people come out and visit, they want to
know the depth of things that doesn't really get spoken
elsewhere. So we can just kind of peel the
curtain back, lift up the hood and just talk about everything.
We got rocking, of which there are many things.
And there could even be time where we just go off on a
tangent because something's a hot topic online or there's some
type of feud going on between people or, you know, just
something that's in the air. Yeah, we can talk about things.
We can talk about rants and raves.
We can talk about business workings, we can talk about
client stuff. You're a coach, I'm a coach.
We get a lot of similar client based questions.
Also too, since we've transitioned the podcast to
Spotify, I can actually see comments in there much more
easily. So if people listen and then
drop a question or comment in Spotify, we can actually see
those and then make whatever their question is a conversation
topic for the next recording. So on the rants, raves and hot
topics note, what is the hot topic now?
Is there anything in the news or media that is relevant that we
should talk about in any space business?
Most of the headlines are nutritional, political, which
I'm not a huge fan of talking about.
Nutrition wise, I think keto is always in the limelight.
Carnivore, carnivore, keto, all that kind of stuff is always in
the spotlight and it's getting a a bad rap, it's getting a good
rap. It's just always.
People are getting a rap. Feuding over it, Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, carnivore's super hot right now, which is funny
because like when I look at how I've eaten for the past 10-11
years doing keto, like it's more carnivore than a lot of these
carnivore, you know, gurus. But I've never considered it or
called it carnivore. There's just been all these
definitions for things, which is kind of strange to see.
I'm not a huge fan of the people that have to put these concrete
barriers on what type of diet you're doing.
Like if you find something that works good for you, just do it.
If it doesn't conform to an exact description, you know,
like some people will say hardcore carnivore is or, or the
lion diet, for example. You know, let's just is that
just beef? Salt, land adds technically beef
water salt. That's it.
Yeah, that's it. So someone says they want to do
the Lion Diet, but then they add in chicken and now someone just
gets on their ass so hard. Like you're not doing the Lion
Diet anymore, you can't add chicken.
Well, OK, call it whatever you want to call it, but if it works
for you, just do it like you don't have to confine to these
little. What have people's, you know got
onto you for eating? Like knowing that you're keto?
Greg, 80, on Instagram. What are people point their
finger and wag at you for? Anything specifically?
Everyone just thinks I'm on like TRT or something, yeah, or gear
or something, you know? They don't, They don't get on
me. They don't really get on me for
nutritional stuff. They just don't believe that you
can achieve awesome things. You'd have pretty crazy high
test levels naturally. I was talking to a good buddy of
mine last night, Adam, and he was saying that like he, he's
natural too. And his level, he's not a
bodybuilder, but his levels were like 809 hundred.
And then he moved and he got really stressed with work and
business and kids and everything.
And they dropped to like 4 or 500.
And then he's just removed a lot of stress from his life.
And now they're back up to 800 naturally.
And I'm looking at my life and I'm never high testosterone.
Like I'm typically like 45600. I think I've seen mine as high
as 700. I've seen it as low as 89 when I
was 3.9%. But I feel like my Achilles heel
is stress and sleep. Like if I just simply didn't
have stress or slept more, I bet I'd see mine go up to 800 no
problem 'cause I'd do everything else right?
But you'd be so bored. Yeah, and that's like an
interesting topic there in and of itself, man.
Like people, we're always trying to optimize for things.
And I know 100% that if I wanted to truly be the best bodybuilder
I could be, then I would probably not own a business.
I would probably not be as stressed as I am.
I would sleep much more. I mean, look at professional,
you know, I have BB pro bodybuilders.
Like they sleep and they train and they eat.
That's literally all they do. That's all they do.
That's all they. Do their day revolves around
eating, sleeping, working out and recovery?
And I want to be the best natural ketogenic bodybuilder in
the world, but I know that I'm going to be selling myself short
by being as stressed as I am with the business.
But I don't know that I could justify not running the business
to be a better bodybuilder because I love that of my life
too. And I feel like life's too short
to be single dimension. Like you have to be
multifaceted. And I feel like I like the idea
of mastery and doubling down on one thing and being the best you
can be at it, but not at the necessary exclusion of other
things that you also view important.
You know? Like, I love being a dad, but if
I wanted to be the best businessman I could be, I
wouldn't come home at 4:00 so that I could spend time with my
kid. But to me, that's not a price
that I think is worth paying. So you have to multitask.
You have, there's no way around it and there's not like people
throw balance into the equation. They say you got to have a work
life balance. And I've always said balance is
bullshit. And I stand by that because I
don't feel like my life is balanced at all.
I mean, like last night I was here at 9:00 PM working on
fighting fires in the freaking kitchen, you know?
But I feel like when you're balanced, it becomes too easy to
just be subpar in everything that you're doing.
And I don't want to be subpar in anything I'm doing.
My biggest fear in life is mediocrity, man.
What's your biggest fear in life?
Just FOMO I guess, Fear of missing out, fear of not doing
something, chasing a dream, following a goal.
You know, putting as much as you can in the every single day.
I feel like you quitting your comfortable life in Minnesota.
It was comfy come down here. Yeah, I had a it was pretty
good. It was pretty cush.
So just uprooted, sold my house, moved S 900 miles or hover many
100 miles and here we are. And here we are.
Yep. Was it a worthwhile decision?
Yeah, so far. So far.
So again, we'll. See Knock on wood.
Knock on wood, man. We don't have any wood around
here, man. Knock on some steel.
I think that's good, man. Like I'm, I've talked, I don't
really keep in touch with me and people from high school, but
when I talked to some of my peers that I went to school
with, many of them have not taken the entrepreneurial route.
And not that you have to be an entrepreneur by any means, but
like a lot of them feel complacent in where they're at.
And like just hearing them speak, it's like, that's what
I'm scared of. Like that's what I don't.
They're just not. They're just not.
They're living. They're not thriving.
Yeah, yeah, they're alive, but they don't thrive.
And I could literally, I don't want to die tomorrow, but I
could die tomorrow and feel like I didn't really hold anything
back. And I feel like that's, that's a
good thing, you know, Like I'm excited about being able to
confidently say that there's a lot more that I want to do, man.
Yeah. And that's I was just going to
say, if you, if you wake up in the morning and you have things
look to look forward to and you like are excited to get up every
single morning. I know so many people that just
hate getting out of bed. They hate going to work, they
hate their job, they hate their boss, they hate their family
life, they hate everything they hate where they live.
Like that's why wouldn't you change some of that?
You can. You're not a tree.
You can do something different. I was at a a Bible study the
other day where you're like an early morning 6:00 on Thursdays
with the Church of men and is it's cool 'cause it's all guys
that are in a similar chapter in life.
Like they're all my age roughly. They've all got, not all of
them, but most of them have like a kid or two or three.
And most of them aren't entrepreneurs, but many of them
are. And they were talking about
like, like sin and temptation. And I was listening to him.
And it's like, I mean, I've got sin and temptation.
And I think everybody does in some extent.
But like the things that I did in life that were typically
categorized as sin by society, we're all done.
When I was bored, when I was complacent, when I was
comfortable, when I wasn't excited about waking up and
tackling the day. And I feel like, as they say,
and I don't mind the devil's playground, so to speak, but so
many people go through life just floating with no intention or
purpose. And when you've got that, like,
you just freaking go, man. Like, I, I mean, I'm like any
other guy to some extent. Like I lived a relatively normal
life, looked at porn and all that stuff like these guys
talking about, but like the moment I started the business
and said, OK, this is what demands my time and attention
ten years ago. It's like none of that other
superficial nonsense is even. There's no place for it.
Cause like, I got things that excite me more than that
there's. Just so many things above and
beyond that. Yeah, I think the same is true
with nutrition. Like when you look at
temptation, certain foods like all these, you know, fancy,
hyper palpable, processed sugary foods, like that excitement is
so short lived, but people don't have something grander than that
to look forward to. And that's just all they fixate
on. And that's what leads people
astray. You know, it's crazy.
All these different parallels in life with everything, with
entrepreneurship, with nutrition, health, fitness,
relationships, parenting, like all of it is rooted in the same
underlying concepts that are just true, you know?
Which is why I kind of like this whole rebrand of the podcast,
like diving into these other things that are more than just
one thing, because all the principles apply across the
board. Yeah, pretty much any aspect of
life. Any aspect of life, any aspect
life. So on an entrepreneurial switch
of gears here, we need, we need, we definitely need to make a
podcast episode that just kind of accurately breaks down the
company and all the different legs of the company.
But what are some things that we're working on 'cause I want
to give the people listen to this subset podcast, the work
podcast, like a definite peek behind the curtain.
So what do we got cooking that the general mass does not know?
About man, there's so much. There's so much in this building
alone. There is just a flood of ideas.
Well, one insider tip. This is going to go live on
Friday, which means the people listening to this podcast right
now are going to be the first to know that we're relaunching
Carnivore Cakepop this Sunday. Spilled the beans the. 16th at
noon Central. Yes.
So Cakepop is back in town. Yes, knock on wood that nothing
happens between now and the time this launches.
Yeah, this podcast I feel like we'll.
Be good. I think we're good.
I think we're good, but man, that's a perfect example of just
things not going like you'd planned.
And like, I don't want to give too much detail because I don't
want to bore people with the nuances of things.
But yeah, this is a constant, you know, journey of pivoting,
adapting and thinking on the fly.
And having like since I started the business, I got exceedingly
good at just being able to recognize potential mistakes or
things that could happen, could go wrong, and then making
contingency plans for when they do because they will absolutely
go wrong. This is what's going to happen.
Yep. So in regard to Carnivore Cake
Pop, we that has been the most heavily requested relaunch of
all flavors ever and it sold out in record time.
Primal fudge sold out quicker, but I think it was because we
kind of paved the way with carnivore cake pop and it really
blew a lot of people's minds and they wished they had ordered
more. So I think when Primal fudge
popped open, that just drew drove that much more traffic to
it. But anyways, cake pop, everyone
has been asking for carnivore cake pop.
When's it coming back? When's it coming back?
I get DMS, the keto brick
Instagram gets DMS, we get Facebook messages, emails, I
mean text messages, everything. And that's only get, I mean,
that's our lowest carb, highest protein brick by far, 45
protein, 3G total carbs. Total carbs, not even net carbs,
that's total carbs. And I just have a feeling it's
going to just disappear so quick this time.
I hope so. And we had plans.
This is a little peel back behind the curtain.
We had plans to bring this one back.
Much. Sooner than it's coming back.
So apologies to everybody who's been asking and we've been
trying to keep you updated. It's coming back soon.
It's coming back soon, early 2025.
We're bringing it back in February.
Sorry, it's coming back in March.
There's a lot of things going on behind the scenes, delayed
ingredients, issues with our packaging process, temperature
regulation. I mean there's like how many
different? Lots of variables.
A lot of sticks in the spokes, yeah.
And people like from the outside looking in and this is another
thing I think it's be good for with this podcast is like the
why behind what we're doing and the timing of things cause like.
'Cause people, people don't know.
People don't know they're they're really only Privy to the
information we put out there and there's a lot that we're working
on they don't know. Yeah.
And like I don't want to make it forward facing of like, oh, our
ingredients got delayed. Oh the weather.
I mean, like people don't want to hear complaints.
Like the weather too. That was the thing.
We had a Blizzard. We were supposed to receive what
we're supposed to receive. It was either kitchen materials
or ingredients, I forget. I think both, yeah.
Yeah, but that guys here on the clock ready to produce, they
don't have ingredients on time. Then it throws all that off,
then it pushes everything else back like a doctor's office.
And then if we assume we're going to get X number of pounds
of protein in good usable condition and it comes off the
back of the truck and there's damaged boxes and punctured bags
and containers, then we're then we're thrown under the bus at
the very last minute. So now we can only produce less
product and it's just a show. It is, it is so like, and I got
to keep my my guys busy 'cause I mean they need hours.
It's like if there's no production taking place, like I
have to pull some random things that need to be done but are not
typically considered high priority and just give them
ours. You know, we've done some
facility upkeep and maintenance around here.
We got a bunch of doors. Like it's a project.
It's a projects. Like Rigel is really good at
slamming doors into the sheetrock and busting holes in
the sheetrock. So we've patched all those
little holes and painted over that.
I got to put those little bumpers up now so we're not
using dumbbells 'cause I need those dumbbells back.
Yeah, little things like them. The.
Let's talk about the apparel for a second.
Cause the apparel, I feel like we launched, I was looking
through my books the other day, reconciling all my accounting
stuff and we launched the apparel in 2019, which honestly
is just sad. It's sad that we've launched
that business, that leg of the business in 2019.
It's currently 2025 and I've still not really sunken my teeth
into it and focused on it like I should.
It's always getting the back burner because the bricks have
always been the priority. And like the cacao crisis
happened, I got to, I had to find a solution to that.
The tallow's been a whole learning curve in and of itself,
the new flavors, all that good stuff.
But like, I think, I think we're getting to a point where we can
start focusing more on the apparel, which I'm super excited
about because we're just going to kind of rebrand that entirely
and change the game on how we're doing it.
And I think that'll be a really good creative outlet for us
that's just outside the food space.
Hopefully the margins are much better 'cause there's no margins
on the bricks. And then we can just make that
something that, you know, gets the attention it deserves.
Yeah, Yep, I'm excited for it. Yeah, it's going to be good
whole new. Website, whole new product line,
whole new. Well, we don't want to spill
everything, I guess. Yeah, it's going to be good
though. It's going to be good.
That will hopefully launch in its entirety for sure this year.
I just don't know when. Yeah, I just don't know when
it's going to drop this year. We got the competition, which we
need to start promoting then, but we got the competition in
September. Registrations now open for that
Natural State, savages.com. So that'll be good.
You're doing that show. Do that show.
We got everything dialed in with the polygraph person, the
tanning, the photographer venue, the venue, the hotel host Jim,
the host Jim. There's a whole other
conversation about that host Jim, but we'll save that for
another day, too. They don't go too far behind the
curtain there, But yeah, that's going to be awesome, man.
I'm super stoked about that. We hadn't really promoted that
yet. But people, I feel like
competitors, and I'm guilty of this too, as a competitor, but
I'll wait until like the last minute to register.
And now that I'm a promoter, I would really appreciate
competitors signing up and registering before the last
minute. Now knowing what it's like being
on the receiving end. Whenever I do a show going
forward, I'm going to register as early as possible.
That way that the promoters got more engaged as to what the, you
know, competitor counts going to be.
And they can plan accordingly because there's a lot of,
there's a lot of costs that the promoter has to fork out up
front. In hopes that there's gonna be
enough competitors to at least break even.
But as a competitor, it gives you a sense of anxiety.
Once you register you're like, oh shit, it's real.
But I think that's a good thing. It is a good thing.
But so like I'm registered for your show.
I'm also registered for one in Wisconsin two months prior or a
month and a half prior. And there's another one or maybe
two kind of in between those that I'm eyeing up but I haven't
registered for. And I don't know why, but I'm
just like, OK, I just, I'm just going to wait and see.
I can always wait and register in a little while.
I can see how the first show goes, then I can register.
But you're right, like why, why are why are you waiting?
Like. I feel like a lot of competitors
and I'm guilty of this, so I can speak to it, but like you want
to wait until you feel confident you're going to look show ready
before you actually pay the money and register because once
you register, it's on the calendar.
It's real, but I feel like you would look more show ready if
you proactively put that on the calendar and you knew that it
was going to happen no matter. What?
So I mean, that could be a metaphor for life.
Like, if you never, if you don't do something, if you don't want
to commit to something until you feel ready, you're never going
to do it. Yeah.
Like, or you're just going to procrastinate.
And it's going to be way, way down the road around the future.
I'm reading this book right now, I've referenced it a few times.
10X is easier than two X. Basically the point being that
linear growth in this 2X, you know, kind of approach is more
competitive because there's more people trying to like gradually
stair step in life and it's more taxing because you just
basically have to increase overall workload to see that 2X
return on investment. Whereas a 10X exponential growth
mindset forces you to do something that you currently
don't feel confident in or capable of.
But once you make that shift, you have to redefine your
identity and look at things through a different lens.
But when you do that, you get so much more excited about the
potential. And that excitement is what
allows you to see opportunities in places you wouldn't
previously have been able to. So I was talking to the tribe
the other day. It's like, look, if you have
never competed before, the idea of stepping on stage and
competing in your skivvies is incredibly scary, daunting and
like, yeah, like totally outside your comfort zone.
But that goal is so much easier to obtain than to, oh, I just
want to lose 10 lbs and fit in my dress better.
Because while that could be great, that's not really, like,
scary or exciting or causing an identity shift.
But if you get that goal of like, hey, I'm, I'm going to,
you know, step on stage. I'm going to take it to that
level. Then you can't help but be
excited about it and forced to re identify it with who you are
as a person. And once you make that shift,
it's honestly easier to reach that goal because then you start
adopting all the routines and habits you need to do that
exponential growth in a way that you never would have been able
to do in that prior version of yourself of yourself.
So I think that's key. So yeah, let people, you know,
simmer on that for a bit. And I want to do that with the
business. Like, I want to have these
growth goals that are just wildly beyond what seems
rational, but then force myself to just embrace it and then do
whatever shift needs to happen to reach it, you know?
Well, they say shoot for the stars, right?
Shoot for the moon. Shoot for the moon and if you
miss you at least land amongst the stars.
So. Huge goals, huge, huge finish
lines and you can't lose. Can't lose.
Now in parallel to the competition, we've got a
challenge that just started the Savage Shred 2025.
Just have a tongue twister. Like if you say Savage Shred,
Savage Shred five times, pretty quickly you're going to mess up
Savage Shred. Savage Shred.
Yeah, you can do it anyways. Anyways, but if the way we get
that structure, we did a six month transformation challenge.
When was that? That was that went through the
holidays. So it ended, I think it ended at
the end of December, did it not? End of December, Yeah, that's
right, because we started the year, yeah, with people having
peaked that way, they can go through Christmas and New Year's
dialed in. But yeah, we did that.
That was a six month transformation challenge.
Transformation challenge and male and female winner both won
5000 bucks a pop, plus a bunch of other free stuff.
Theresa and Josh, they looked phenomenal.
Everybody did. It was phenomenal.
But we're doing another challenge.
We're going to make this one a nine month challenge.
It's not transformational in like a transformation contest
per SE, because we're going to have like the starting photos,
the peaking photos, which coincide with the same peak week
as my competition. And then we're going to have a
reverse diet component factored in that lasts for two months
after that peak week. So that we kind of incentivize
people to go through a reverse diet and make it healthy.
So nine months in total. And that is now open to the
public and people can join the tribe and be a part of that.
And again, we're going to put $10,000 up for grabs there, 5000
to the male winner, 5000 to the female winner.
Again, the tribe votes on those winners.
But I'm hoping that with it paralleling the competition,
anybody that's dialing in and getting diced for that, you
know, challenge, they'll be that much more inclined to be like,
all right, let's pull the trigger and just step on stage
and do it for real. Exactly because they're going to
have access to the tribe community and the tribe is full
of people that are going to be doing the same thing and they're
all super supportive and helpful and they've all, you know,
worked the system to some extent and understand and all that kind
of stuff. Plus you get the weekly live
calls every Tuesday night, you get to chat with Robert.
And then also, if you utilize the AII mean, that's essentially
all of your content and your entire protocol in a database
that you can query anytime you want.
Yeah, that'll be good. I think that will be, We learned
a lot with this first transformation challenge.
I think we've got it more dialed in now and I think this could be
an annual thing because we're going to make the competition an
annual thing. So we just might parallel these
every year going forward. So excited about that.
What else are we excited about? You got some personal things
that are exciting if you're at liberty to talk about them.
Like what? You're not.
You're not solo anymore. Man, Oh yeah, yeah, talk about
that. I got a gym partner now but.
What I'm your gym partner? OK I got AI have a gym.
I have a gym partner now of each gender.
So of each gender. Yeah.
We had a a contract, yeah, signed it, you know, talk about
that. That was.
Caitlin's idea. And that was awesome.
Yeah. So we, I'm seeing a lovely young
lady named Caitlin and she likes to hit the gym as well, but she
knows that I hit the gym most mornings with Robert.
We train, we, we train together. We hit the same muscle group.
We have the same workout split. We have kind of just the same
training schedule as it goes. So she drafted a contract to how
does it? How is it?
How does she word it to Cher? No, it's shared custody.
Is that what it was? I think shared custody with a 5
day written notice. Yeah, so like, so like her and I
can go work out, but we have to let Robert know that I'm going
to be bailing out a day next week or in advance or whatever.
So it's pretty comical. It's, it's pretty cool.
And she's super cool. Like, we met her originally, you
and I were putting posters up at a gym in, Oh yeah, up north,
somewhere up in Rogers, I guess. And she was there doing
hamstring curls or something. I can't remember.
I don't. I don't.
Honestly, you don't want. To give away the whole.
Story, don't want to give the whole story but yeah y'all hit
it off and that's pretty much how that worked out.
But she's super cool. We've had her out to the team
day for for BBQ. She eats meat, so she's even
better. Yeah, she's not crazy vegan or
anything like that. Nothing against vegans out
there, just probably wouldn't make a good fit for Greg that.
Would be a. Clash.
Yeah, that would be a clash for sure.
But yeah, she's super cool. What other personal things you
got going? Competition prep is big, so.
We got to convince her to the prep, to the show.
You know, she'd, she'd probably be done.
I don't think she's super excited about being up in front
of a lot of people. But that's.
How most people are. That's right.
I mean, that's. Never listened to this podcast.
First time I did a competition back in 2013 ish, same thing.
I was scared beyond belief. But once you get backstage and
once you kind of interact with some of those other competitors,
the vibe is amazing because everyone's in the same exact
situation. They've all made crazy changes
to their daily life and their working out and their nutrition.
They've all gone through a lot of struggle just to get there.
And everyone kind of understands like you're in the same, you're
all on the same team. Even though you're competing
against each other. If you're a first timer, you're
all on the same team. It's pretty cool.
But yeah, I don't think she'd be down for that, but I am I've I'm
excited to do it. This will be my third ketogenic
prep with your guidance. So we're going to try to get
shredded ER and leaner than ever and try to steal some shows.
So it'll be good, man. It'll be good.
Crystal is getting the itch to compete again, but she's like,
you know, 24 weeks pregnant right now, so she's not going to
do it just right off the bat. Well, she could win a
transformation challenge if she takes pictures now.
Yeah, she could. She could that for sure.
But yeah, it'll be cool. Like we've, we've had to change
so many things with her training schedule and we trained so many
things because like she and I were workout partners and then
we had Rigel and then that kind of put a damper on that.
Like we'll train sometimes together, but with him it's just
total chaos. So like she was trying to train
before he woke up or while he's taking a nap.
So we brought a, she was waking up super early and coming to the
gym here. That didn't really work out.
Then we moved some equipment to the house in the garage, and
that didn't work out because he would always wake up when she
tried to go train. Now I'm leaving earlier three
days a week so that I can watch him and then she can come here
and train with Ellen, who's also going to do the competition,
which is super cool because that kind of incentivizes Ellen to,
you know, have a good quality workout partner, go to the right
range of motion and movements, and do everything correctly.
And I know Ellen loves it. Yeah, she values that too.
Yeah, it's it's good. So I'm super excited for her to
be able to do that. So she's got 3 dedicated days a
week and then she'll typically train at some point during the
weekend as well. But yeah, we're going to have
another baby on the way. So I don't know what what that's
going to do from a training standpoint for her because she's
going to have her hands full times 2, you know, so.
You'll be watching 2 while she trains.
Yeah, I haven't really figured out how to breastfeed though, so
like, I might not be able to pull much weight.
Pretty sure they make like little, you know, fake ones you
can just kind of hang over your neck or something.
Fake ones. Well, I think it's a compliment
really, because like when Rigel was first born and was
breastfeeding still like he would try to latch on to me.
And I, I've never had big pecks. Like it's always been my lagging
body part as a bodybuilder. So I think if he's trying to
latch on to me, that must mean I've got somewhat developed
Peps, right? I mean, that's a good one maybe.
They're too bald. I don't know.
That could be it too. That could be it too.
I don't have much chest hair, man.
We'll save the hair removal for another.
Episode. Yeah, we were talking.
About the competition, that'd be a good one.
That'd be a good deep dive episode for sure.
But yeah, man, I want these. I don't how, how long are we in
chip? 34 minutes, 34 minutes.
All right. We're going to try and make
these somewhat consistent roughly every Friday, but there
may be a couple weeks where that's not the case based off of
travel schedules, conferences, competitions, etcetera,
etcetera. But I think this kind of format
will be good. We can do a deep dive on things
that are happening in the week, things we got coming in the
near. We got the retreat.
We'll talk about the retreat. Yeah, that's big.
We got a registrations now open for that too.
So we're doing these like quarterly retreats, Savage
retreats, and this next one is slated for April 9th through the
13th I believe, in Kettle Falls, WA and I'm doing a collaborative
retreat with Bruce Mcglinn as a professional hunter.
I'm kind of teaching people how to hunt and I'm going to be
bringing this nutrition and training component to it.
So I'm going to bring my in body some weights and then I'm just
going to like kind of tie the knot between being physically
fit and being the best hunter you can because they go hand in
hand. And nutrition, right?
Yeah. And nutrition, I mean, you eat a
lot of meat as a hunter typically, So it makes sense
that you kind of adapt diet that philosophizes around that.
So I think that's going to be super cool.
Bruce is awesome. I've had him on the podcast
twice. He's super good guy.
The last retreat we did with Bill was awesome.
So I'm excited about those, man. I think those would be where's,
where's the third one going to be?
Any idea? I don't know.
We we were kind of brainstorming some ideas, but we didn't really
lock anything down. I got a venue idea.
Where's that? So my cousin's own this like
antique, like they they own their own business too.
They're called the Junk Gypsies in Round Top, TX super awesome
people. But they've got this little inn
that they've got that they rent out.
I might do it there in Texas and then they can find a relevant,
you know, speaker for in that general vicinity.
So would that be like the fall of 2025?
Probably, but we thought about not doing one third quarter
because of the competition and then doing the next one like
fourth quarter or so, so. Like Winterish?
Maybe, maybe I still got to work out the details on that one, but
I think I'm excited about the retreats.
Yeah, that'd be, that'd be cool for winter time in Texas because
it's, you know. Not yeah, yeah, that'll be good.
But yeah, man, we'll, we'll do these podcasts.
I'm excited about it. I feel like with my normal
podcast, I'm talking to a guest and I'm letting them do most
talk and I'm kind of steering the ship, so to speak and asking
the relevant questions. And it's a dialogue.
But like they're the highlights. And with this one, it can be
like a mutual back and forth between you and me because you
and I are just in here the inter workings of the business on a
daily basis. And so the work I feel like is a
fitting. We just talk through it, talk
through the work. Whatever is hot in our minds
that that time. Hot in the minds.
So for the listeners, let us know what you think about this
format. If you've got any questions or
things you want us to do a deep dive on, feel free to throw
those in the comments and we will definitely tackle them in
all kinds of detail. And yeah, I'm excited about this
stuff, so it's going to be good. Rock'n'roll.
Greg, everybody knows you and where to find you.
But for those that don't, where should they go?
Keto Greg, 80, on Instagram. Keto Greg 80 on Instagram and
you'll hopefully know where to find me.
Keto Savage, Keto Brick, Keto Bodybuilding, all that good
stuff. Till next time, you'll Tata for
now. Bye.